Posts with the tag 'Leftwing Alternate Universe'
While I’ve admired President Bush for many reasons, what I could never understand was the President’s reluctance to answer the many unfounded, over-the-top criticisms and out-and-out attacks that were foisted upon him by the left of this nation.
Paul Kengor addresses this in a must-read piece at the American Thinker. For all of the Bush Administration’s successes, most notably his success via perseverance of his Iraq war policy, President Bush’s “new tone” policy set the stage for the relentless, unanswered barrages of assaults by the leftists of this nation and around the world.
The “feel-good” language espoused by many democrats regarding “getting along” and their supposed pining to end the “politics of personal destruction,” in the end, of course, was so much political puffery. On the other hand, George Bush’s “new tone” was not only a buzzword, but S.O.P. for his administration. As with nearly every aspect of his administration (and what those on the left could never fathom nor abide), Bush actually meant what he said and said what he meant when he proclaimed that he would establish “a new tone” in Washington.
Paul Kengor asserts that Bush’s “new tone” was a spinoff of his adherence to his evangelical Christian roots; specifically with regard to the principle of “turning the other cheek (Luke 6:29).”
While a president’s abiding by principle is certainly to be lauded, the application of this principle to Bush’s leftist detractors during his administration yielded disastrous, and yes, even dangerous results. Turning the other cheek allowed the leftists to set the agenda for debate, and allowed them relatively free rein in their efforts to dangerously damage the morale of this country with carte-blanche levels of seditious rhetoric and out-and-out falsehoods. Bush’s “new tone” allowed the leftist elements of this country to give licentious aid and comfort to America’s enemies during a time when our sons and daughters were in harm’s way, giving our enemies encouragement to climb out of their caves and kill another day. Bush’s “new tone” has made it much easier for democrats and other leftist elements to continue relatively unabated on a roll of propaganda based on contrivances that continues to this day, on every issue from energy to foreign policy.
Unfortunately, the Bush Administration’s failure to utilize the bully pulpit to answer unjust criticism and attacks from detractors has left those of us on the right side of the aisle to do all the heavy lifting; which was all well and good, but not enough.
President Bush has many legislative and policy accomplishments for which to be proud. But public opinion and debate in the arena of ideas are also matters of import.
It is my opinion that President Bush’s “new tone” policy is a virtual handbook of how not to play the game.
Tags: Leftwing Alternate Universe, President Bush, The Fifth Column
July 21st, 2008
From Firedoglake:
He sure talks the talk. Too bad his health care plan isn’t universal. Hilary’s was. Edwards’ was. Obama’s isn’t. But don’t worry, Obama believes.
Mmm, those sweet hot whispers. Like Obama’s belief in abortion rights. You can have that abortion. ‘Ceptin’ all those women having late term abortions for kicks (anyone ever known even one?), so we need to make some rules so government can go all Schiavo on them at eight months. Let’s start having court cases over what counts as enough emotional distress to justify late term abortions. Obama’s for abortion rights, just not for women who don’t deserve them. Just like he’s for universal health care. Except not for everyone.
His sweet talk is the same as every other empty suit’s to a pretty woman - he just wants her to say “yes”, just one time, in this case - just one time in November.
But when they listen real close, they hear that his health care plan isn’t actually universal, and his support of Roe vs. Wade is only if mental illness isn’t involved.
Sweet but empty.
Obama. Obama. Obama.
Please, please, no more sweet and empty. It’s not Diet Obama we’re looking for.
Be for the 4th amendment. Be for abortion rights. And be for universal health are. Don’t just say you’re progressive one day, then the next day say “except…”
No more sweet nothings.
Real commitment will get you eight years, not just one day.
The left really does believe that America turned left in 2006 - that, in fact, America has always been left and the fact of conservative Congresses and Presidents is a result of stolen election and/or bamboozled populations…but everyone has “woken up”, now, and the left is on the march…so, Obama is (or, at least, was) the man..the ardent leftist who will change America into a hopeful, leftist nation where the whole, long national nightmare of President Bush will be put forever to rest and no more conservatives will ever arise to disturb the liberal orthodoxy.
And then Obama had to go and drop dime on them - and they’re all shocked, as if they didn’t go through 8 years of Clinton hanging the left out to dry because the left is only a tiny minority in America and can’t win elections on its own. Clinton knew this and, apparently, Obama has figured it out…and so Obama tries to shift right for the fall campaign and hopes and hopes that McCain will not be successful as reminding the voters that Obama has always been a far left extremist in thought and action. One might think that the left would be ok with this - confident that Obama will govern left once in office and so don’t rock the boat until November is in the bag…but this ignores something the left believes very strongly: Only an avowedly leftist candidate can defeat the GOP because the American people are yearning for leftism and only a leftwing clarion call will get them motivated enough to beat back the Republican noise machine and Diebold vote stealing. Obama’s triangulation, far from helping him for November, is seen by the left as not just a betrayal, but a formula for certain defeat.
What will the result of this be? Time will tell - certainly Obama will still overwhelmingly win the leftwing voters in November…but how many of them will show up? That is the real question…
Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, Leftwing Alternate Universe, liberal lies
July 10th, 2008
Mark Steyn notes the real issue vis a vis Obama and his pastor:
The Senator has said he missed Jeremiah Wright’s post-9/11 sermon. How many other Sundays did he decide to sleep in? Did he also miss the one where the Reverend Wright referred to “the US of KKKA”? How about the one where the pastor said “the government lied about Pearl Harbor. They knew the Japanese were about to attack”?
Out of town that morning? Well, what about the one where he said “the government lied about inventing HIV as a means of genocide against people of color”? Alarm clock out of batteries that Sunday, too?…
…Obama listened to Wright’s bilge week in, week out his entire adult life and by the end was giving this huckster over 20 grand a year to keep him in business. It seems reasonable to assume, given some of her observations on the hustings, that Mrs Obama agrees with the broad thrust of Jeremiah Wright’s “theology”. Does her husband?
Derb wondered the other day whether the Obama campaign was a massive “con job”. But it’s worse than that. If he were a con artist, he’d be like every other opportunist pol contemplating a run for the presidency: he’d be slick enough to know from the get-go that the Reverend Wright was a guy he needed to keep at way beyond arm’s length; instead, he named his big pre-campaign hey-world-here-I-am book after one of his sermons. That suggests Obama didn’t even appreciate Wright was a potential problem. Which, in turn, suggests a candidate as disconnected from reality as his pastor is.
I noted this sort of thing back in 2004 - the way our leftwing friends are divorced from reality and don’t even realise how downright bizarre they sound at times.
From what I can tell from afar, Senator Obama seems like a pretty nice guy; I’d probably have a fine time hanging out with him - but the fact that he did, indeed, sit for year after year at the feet of Wright and never once said, “this man is ’round the bend kookoo”, shows that for all of Obama’s accomplishments, he’s spent his life in the cramped and bigoted intellectual atmosphere of the left. I doubt that Obama - like most leftists - has ever really sat down and talked to a conservative; or read a conservative book. For Obama, Wright’s ignorant diatribes seemed rational because Obama has never, it would seem, exposed himself to a contrary point of view.
It is to be hoped that a man of Obama’s intelligence will, one day, challenge himself intellectually and immerse himself for a while in conservative thought. The result, I believe, would be startling - not least to those on the left who currently support him. The problem, as usual, is to actually get a leftist to listen to dissenting points of view. From our own experience here on the blog, we can see that leftists tend to run screaming from anything which calls into question their worldview - followed by the immediate attempt to change the subject.
Meanwhile, all we can do is keep fighting them - we daren’t let them get too much power, because people as off base as modern American leftists will cause catastrophe if they gain the power they want.
UPDATE: Meanwhile, don’t forget that Wright isn’t Obama’s only problem; he’s also hip deep in Rezko, and it looks like Rezko shovelled more cash at Obama than previously thought.
Tags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Leftwing Alternate Universe
March 16th, 2008
